BIRBHUM

Birbhum: In yet another clash between Trinmool Congress and Bhartiya Janata Party workers in Sattore village of Birbhum district in West Bengal one person sustained minor injuries on Wednesday.
A Rapid Action Force team has been deployed in the area as the situation remains tense as sporodic bombs being hurlded...

Birbhum: West Bengal police on Tuesday morning recovered over 200 crude bombs in Birbhum district of West Bengal. Two people have been arrested in connection to the recovered crude bombs, the police informed.
Earlier in December about 70 crude bombs were recovered from Sattore in Birbhum district.
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Birbhum: In more violence in West Bengal, a Trinamool Congress worker has been killed in clashes with Bharatiya Janata Party members in Birbhum district of the state.
A BJP woman worker has also been injured in the clashes that continued throughout the night. Crude bombs were hurled by party workers...

Birbhum: Fresh clashes between the workers of ruling Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party claimed one life in West Bengal's Birbhum district which was under curfew for over 10 days earlier this month.
The deceased is reportedly a BJP supporter whose body was recovered by police from Chowmandalpur village.
Five people...

Birbhum: It has been a week since Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter 17-year old Tausif Ali, died in clashes with Trinamool workers in Birbhum. Tears haven't dried up at Tausif's home as his family lives in fear of both those who attacked him and also the police.
"Most of the...

Birbhum: West Bengal Police have withdrawn Section 144 from violence-torn Birbhum, 11 days after clashes between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Makhra clashes for territorial control between the Trinamool and BJP which killed at least three people happened despite Section 144 in place in that region.
The police...

Kolkata: A team of BJP's state unit, carrying relief materials for villagers of trouble-torn Makhra in Birbhum district was not allowed to enter the village, as the area has been put under Sec 144 CrPC by the district administration.
The BJP team led by senior leader Tathagatha Ray tried to enter...

Birbhum: Violence-torn Birbhum continues to remain a political arena days after clashes broke out between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool Congress workers.
With Section 144 imposed in the region, BJP workers carrying relief material to the violence-torn Birbhum district of West Bengal were stopped by the police on Sunday...

Kolkata: Even as the opposition upped the ante over the violence-hit Makhra village in West Bengal's Birbhum, the ruling Trinamool Congress seemingly on the defensive, hit out at the media calling a journalist "small fry".
Political clashes allegedly between the Trinamool and the BJP activists on Monday had left three people...

Birbhum: In the aftermath of the clashes between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress workers in Birbhum, the district has become a political arena. After the BJP and the Left, a Congress delegation on Saturday went to Birbhum to visit the affected villages demanding that the police lift...

Kolkata: In an attempt to make its presence felt in the violence-hit Birbhum region, the Congress unit in West Bengal visited the place. The delegation of Congress leaders-led by state party chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury were stopped by police as Section 144 has been clamped in the area.
Congress workers were...

Kolkata: A Bharatiya Janata Party delegation, led by the party's state president Rahul Sinha met the West Bengal governor KN Tripathi to apprise him about the political situation in Birbhum.
Earlier on Thursday, a three-member BJP fact finding team was stopped in Birbhum and arrested. The BJP team was in Birbhum...

Kolkata: Siuri court severely reprimanded West Bengal Police and directed top brass of district police to remove the officer in charge of Parui PS Kartick Mohan Ghosh and suspend Investigation Officer in the Parui political clash case Dhrubajyoti Dutta for dereliction of duty.
The court referred the case to Calcutta...

Due to increased attacks on BJP workers in Birbhum district, allegedly by TMC workers, a three-member fact-finding team of the BJP visited Birbhum to assess the situation. BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that the TMC leaders had used their clout to influence the locals.
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Birbhum: The members of the Bharatiya Janata Party's fact-finding team on the attacks on party leaders in Birbhum were on Thursday arrested and then released on bail. The team led by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was taken into custody just 4 km ahead of Birbhum as it tried to break barricades.
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Birbhum: In political clashes that took a violent turn, three people have been killed as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party workers clashed in Birbhum in West Bengal. One victim is a BJP worker while the other two are TMC supporters.
No arrests have been made so far in...

Birbhum: As many as four people suffered bullet injuries in clashes between the workers of Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal's Birbhum district.
The incident took place in Makra village which now has heavy deployment of Rapid Action Force in the area following the violence. Many people have...

Birbhum (West Bengal): Five people have been arrested and remanded to police custody for attacking two police officers in Birbhum earlier this week.
A total of 10 people have been arrested so far. The two police officers were attacked after they went to investigate reports of crude bombs being stored...

Birbhum: Two police officers in Birbhum were attacked by assailants armed with crude bombs, lathis and other arms on Friday. The police reportedly fired to disperse the attacking mob.
The two officers were seriously injured and admitted to the Suri district hospital.
The officers were attacked after acting on information that a...

Suri: Six persons including two local Trinamool Congress leaders of Birbhum district were arrested and country made firearms and bombs were recovered from them, police said.
Pralay Ghosh and Rajib Pan, local TMC leaders of Khayrasole area of Birbhum district were arrested along with four others when they were travelling...

Kolkata: A court in Bolpur has sentenced all 13 convicts in the Labhpur gangrape case to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 each. The court has also directed the West Bengal government to shoulder the financial responsibilities of all the family dependents of the convicts...

Kolkata: A court in Bolpur in West Bengal on Friday pronounced 13 accused in a gangrape case guilty. The sentence will be given on Saturday.
In January this year, a 20yearold tribal girl was gangraped by 13 men on the orders of a kangaroo court for having an affair outside her...

Suri: At least 22 patients went missing after smoke emanated from the computer server of a government run hospital in Birbhum district early on Sunday, a health department official said.
The smoke was detected from the server of the Suri Sadar Hospital at around 1.30 am following which many patients...

Birbhum: Four years after he was allegedly involved in a triple murder case, Trinamool Congress MLA from Birbhum, Manirul Islam remains untouched by the Bengal Police, while the victims' families continue living in constant fear.
Eightyyearold Zarina Bibi, a refugee in her own village, keeps shifting homes to escape the wrath...

Kolkata: In a shameful incident in Birbhum in West Bengal, a tribal class 6th student was allegedly raped. Two of the accused have been arrested.
The accused are class 8 and 9 students from the same school. Medical tests have been conducted on the victim and the report is awaited....

BJP candidate from Birbhum, Joy Banerjee has Rs 65,000 cash in hand while his investments and bank deposits are valued at Rs 87,000. He along with his wife owns jewellery worth Rs 3.8 lakh. Banerjee's total assets is just Rs 5.5 lakh.
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New Delhi: Two people were killed and around seven were injured in an explosion inside the house of a local TMC leader Shaikh Ismail in Birbhum district of West Bengal.
Although the reason behind the blast is not known yet, but it could have been due to the crude bombs...

105 crude bombs and explosive manufacturing material were on Saturday seized by security forces during a search operation in West Bengal's Birbhum district, ahead of April 30 polls.
The raid was carried out by a joint squad of CRPF and state police in the Bamdevpur village under Rampurhat police station area...

Kolkata: Drawing flak from opposition after the arrest of the wife and a son of purported Saradha chit fund mastermind Sudipta Sen by a central agency, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused her political opponents of hatching a conspiracy along with the media to malign her Trinamool...

The assets of Trinamool Congress parliamentarian and Bengali film actress Satabdi Roy - recontesting from the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat - have registered a sharp increase and nearly trebled to over a whopping Rs 4 crore.
According to her affidavit, the actress-turned-politician's assets are valued at Rs 4,25,47,727 from the Rs...